The second set of charges are a legal trick employed by the Japanese prosecutors, the filing of which (without proof) result in additional incarceration time for Ghosn. The prosecutors can continue parsing out 'additional' charges every 10 days in order to prolong his incarceration. That's how the Japanese legal system works.

As I understand it - they're layering the charges to avoid a flight risk of him; however -I don't agree w/ the process.

However, I feel that where there is smoke, there is fire. If this was a simple compensation issue (which understates it as compensation is complicated at the CEO level - but you get what I'm saying) - he'd have been fired. However, holding him in prison, prolonging the stay there, leads me to believe there is much more at play here.

While I'm NOT a fan of Nissan; I think the punishments bestowed upon Ghosn so far are a bit extreme...he's volunteered to wear an ankle bracelet (so not able to be a flight risk)...and isn't able to respond to any allegations...so, it feels like guilty until proven innocent (which maybe is just a North American thing).